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1981 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)
The 1981 Queen's Birthday Honours for Australia were appointments to recognise and reward good works by citizens of Australia and other nations that contribute to Australia. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday The King's Official Birthday (alternatively the Queen's Official Birthday when the monarch is female) is the selected day in the United Kingdom and most Commonwealth realms on which the birthday of the monarch is officially celebrated in those ... celebrations and were announced on 13 June 1981 in Australia. The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour with grades and then divisions i.e. Civil, Diplomatic and Military as appropriate. Order of Australia Knight of the Order of Australia (AK) General Division Companion (AC) General Division Officer (AO) General Division Military Division Member (AM) General Division Military Division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Honours System
The Australian honours and awards system refers to all Order (distinction), orders, decorations, and medals, as instituted by letters patent from the Monarchy of Australia, Monarch of Australia and countersigned by the Australian prime minister at the time, that have been progressively introduced since 14 February 1975. The Australian honours and awards system excludes all state and local government, and private, issued awards and medals (although a few can be recognised in the Australian Honours Order of Wearing, order of wearing, like those in the Order of Saint John (chartered 1888), Order of St John). Honours and awards have been present in Australia since pre-Federation of Australia, Federation, primarily from the Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom, Imperial honours and awards system. This Imperial system remained in place until its full phase out in 1994 (although the Monarch of Australia may still confer some of these honours to Australians in their perso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Bennett
General Sir Phillip Harvey Bennett, (born 27 December 1928) is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army who served as Chief of the Australian Defence Force from 1984 to 1987, and later as Governor of Tasmania from 1987 to 1995. Early life Bennett was born in Perth, Western Australia, and educated at Perth Modern School and the Royal Military College, Duntroon, from which he graduated as a lieutenant on 14 December 1948. With 13 other new officers, he was posted in March 1949 to 67 Infantry Battalion, The Australian Regiment, then in the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, Japan. Military career Bennett served in Japan until September 1950 and then embarked with the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment for Korea where he served for a year during which he was wounded in action on 14 October 1950, remaining on duty, and Mentioned in Despatches in 1951. He served again for 12 months in Korea from 1 September 1952 as Senior Instructor, then Chief Instructor, with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Rees (author)
George Leslie Clarke Rees (28 December 1905 – 17 August 2000) was an Australian writer for children who was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia. Career He attended Perth Modern School and then the University of Western Australia, where he edited the student magazine, ''Black Swan''. He then worked for The West Australian as a journalist before travelling to London to study at University College on a scholarship. It was while there that he married fellow Western Australian, Coralie Clarke, who had been a sub-editor during his time on the ''Black Swan''. Rees returned to Australia in 1936 to become the Australian Broadcasting Commission's first federal drama editor in Sydney. He was also President of PEN (Sydney) for a number of years. As a writer, Rees is best known as a prolific author of children's books as well as written travel books, plays and an autobiography. He wrote the first Australian-written drama to air on Australian television, '' The Sub-Editor's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Painter (cellist)
John Galloway Painter AM (born 1932) is an Australian classical cellist. He founded the Australian Chamber Orchestra in 1975,Verghis, Sharon"Bach with more bite pays off"'' Sydney Morning Herald'', 2 September 2005. and was Director of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music from 1982 to 1985. Painter has been associated with arts organisations such as the Music Board and Community Arts Committee of the Australia Council for the Arts, the board of Musica Viva Australia, the Victorian Institute of Colleges, the National Institute of Dramatic Art and the Australian National Academy of Music. In 1996, Painter was a judge of the Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia. In 2013–14, he was Chair of adjudicators for the inaugural Australian Cello Awards, with the Finals Concert held in Sydney on 30 March 2014. Awards and honours In 1981, Painter was made a Member of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an Order (distinction), honour that recognises Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Nevin
Robyn Anne Nevin (25 September 1942) is an Australian actress, director, and stage producer, recognised with the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards and the JC Williamson Award at the Helpmann Awards for her outstanding contributions to Australian theatre performance art. Former head of both the Queensland Theatre Company and the Sydney Theatre Company, she has directed more than 30 productions and acted in more than 80 plays, collaborating with internationally renowned artists, including Richard Wherrett, Simon Phillips, Geoffrey Rush, Julie Andrews, Aubrey Mellor, Jennifer Flowers, Cate Blanchett and Lee Lewis. Nevin is also known for her roles in films and televisions series, including ''Water Under the Bridge'' (1980) as Shasta, role that earned her a Logie Awards and a Penguin Award, ''Upper Middle Bogan'' (2014) and ''Top of the Lake'' (2014), and international film acting as Councillor Dillard in ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and ''The Matrix Revolutions'' (both 2003), and as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Murray-Smith
Stephen Murray-Smith AM (9 September 1922 – 31 July 1988) was an Australian writer, editor and educator. Early life and education Murray-Smith's father ran a lucrative business shipping Australian horses to India for the armed forces. It enabled the family to live in Toorak, one of Melbourne's wealthiest suburbs, and to send Stephen to board at Geelong Grammar School from 1934. He described his home as "bookless", adding however that his mother was "a voracious reader all her life", getting her books from the circulating and public libraries. The business, and the wealth, came "to a dead end in 1938, when the Indian army mechanised", but generosity from the school and from Murray-Smith's grandfather allowed him to remain at Geelong Grammar and complete his schooling in 1940. Murray-Smith later described Geelong Grammar as "a good but conservative middle-class school". In his position as secretary of the Public Affairs Society at the school he "invited Ralph Gibson of the Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Levi (rabbi)
Rabbi John Simon Levi (born 1934) is an Australian Reform Judaism, Progressive rabbi and author. He was the rabbi at Melbourne's Temple Beth Israel for many years and was a founder of Melbourne's King David School, Melbourne, King David School. Levi was created a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 1981 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia), 1981 Queen's Birthday Honours. In the 2021 Australia Day Honours, Levi was awarded the highest level of honour, the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC). He was given the award for "eminent service to Judaism through seminal roles with religious, community and historical organisations, to the advancement of interfaith understanding, tolerance and collaboration, and to education". Levi became the first Australian born rabbi when he was ordained in 1960 and joined the staff of Temple Beth Israel. He was senior rabbi there from 1974 to 1997 when he became Rabbi Emeritus. He was named as Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Beth Israel in 1997 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Col Joye
Colin Frederick Jacobsen (born 13 April 1937), better known by his stage name Col Joye, is an Australian pioneer rock singer-songwriter, musician and entrepreneur with a career spanning some sixty years. Joye was the first Australian rock and roll singer to have a number one record Australia-wide, and experienced a string of chart successes in the early Australian rock and roll scene. He performed with his band the Joy Boys (formerly KJ Quintet). Early life and education Colin Jacobsen was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on 13 April 1937. He started his career as a jewellery salesman after leaving school. Musical career He started performing and recording with his backing band, the KJ Quintet, that would become the Joy Boys, which included his brothers Kevin and Keith. Joye enjoyed a string of hits on the local and national singles charts of Australia beginning in 1959. Joye's first single, " Stagger Lee" was a cover of the Lloyd Price US original. However, his third single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ireland (author)
David Neil Ireland (24 August 1927 – 26 July 2022) was an Australian novelist. Biography David Ireland was born in Lakemba in New South Wales in 1927. Before taking up full-time writing in 1973, he undertook the classic writer's apprenticeship by working in a variety of jobs, ranging from greenskeeper to an extended period in an oil refinery. This latter job inspired his second (and best-known) novel, '' The Unknown Industrial Prisoner'', which brought him recognition in the early 1970s. It is still considered by many critics to be one of the best and most original Australian novels of the period. He won the Miles Franklin Award three times (1971, 1976 and 1979). He is one of only four Australian writers to win the Award more than twice; the others are Thea Astley (4) and Tim Winton (4), and Peter Carey (3). Ireland died on 26 July 2022 aged 94. Honours and awards * 1966 – winner The Advertiser Literary Competition for ''The Chantic Bird'' * 1971 – winner Miles Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dowie (artist)
John Stuart Dowie AM (15 January 1915 – 19 March 2008) was an Australian painter, sculptor and teacher. His work includes over 50 public sculpture commissions, including the "Three Rivers" fountain in Victoria Square, "Alice" in Rymill Park, the " Victor Richardson Gates" at Adelaide Oval and the "Sir Ross & Sir Keith Smith Memorial" at Adelaide Airport. History Dowie was born in the Adelaide suburb of Prospect, a son of Charles Stuart Dowie (c. 1874–1937) and his wife Gertrude Phillis Dowie, née Davey (1881–1956), who married in 1910. His siblings were David Lincoln Dowie (1911–1991), Jean Phillis Dowie (1913–2010), and Donald Alexander "Don" Dowie (1917–2016). The family moved to the leafy suburb of Dulwich in 1917. He attended Rose Park primary school and Adelaide High School before studying architecture at the University of Adelaide and painting at the South Australian School of Art; teachers included Ivor Hele and Marie Tuck. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ren DeGaris
Renfrey Curgenven De Garis AM (12 October 1921 – 5 February 2007), generally known as "Ren DeGaris", was a businessman, pastoralist and politician in the State of South Australia. History He was born at "Tremorvah", Millicent, a son of Ralph Edwin DeGaris and Mrs DeGaris née Curgenven. On leaving college, he worked for the Millicent branch of the family firm of DeGaris, Sons & Co., (in 1947 merged into Elder, Smith and Co.) stock and station agents of Naracoorte. He enlisted with the RAAF in 1941. His younger brother William Sowden DeGaris, also with the RAAF, was killed over Germany in 1945. He served as councillor with the Millicent District Council from 1948 to 1954. He was elected in December 1962 for the Liberal and Country League (Liberal Party) to a Southern district seat in the Legislative Council, and remained a member, through the reversion in 1975 of that House to a single constituency, until November 1985. He served as Chief Secretary, Minister for Health ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Bartlett (Australian Rules Footballer)
Kevin Charles Bartlett AM (born 6 March 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Nicknamed "KB" or "Hungry" due to his appetite for kicking goals and apparent reluctance to handpass,Main (2006), p. 213 Bartlett is a Legend of the Australian Football Hall of Fame and is the first VFL/AFL player to have reached the 400-game milestone, a feat since achieved by four other players as of 2022; he has played the third-most number of games of any player in VFL/AFL history. He is a key member of a golden era in Richmond's history, playing in five premiership teams and winning five Jack Dyer Medals, equalling Jack Dyer's own personal tally. Short and slender in stature, Bartlett possessed tremendous stamina, determination and a seemingly sixth sense to evade opposition players intent on negating his influence. He played much of his best football as Richmond's starting rover, but adapted superbly when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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